Transitioning Activities from Manual Testing to Continuous Testing CT-TAS Practice Questions (Page 6)

Questions 26–30

1. 26foundation · easy

   Which of the following is an example of a quality metric that can be reported from automated test execution?

   • AColor of the test environment
   • BName of the automation tool
   • CTest pass rate
   • DNumber of testers on the team
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2. 27application · medium

   A DevOps team is integrating automated tests into their CI/CD pipeline. They want to ensure that the tests provide rapid feedback to developers. Which of the following actions would BEST support this goal?

   • ARun the full automated test suite only on a nightly schedule
   • BRun the full automated test suite on every commit
   • CRun automated tests only after a manual testing phase is completed
   • DRun a subset of fast, stable tests on every commit, and the full suite on a nightly schedule
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4. 28application · medium

   A financial services company is transitioning its core banking application from manual to automated testing. The test manager must decide which of the following test cases to automate first. Which test case is the MOST suitable candidate for automation?

   • AAn exploratory test session designed to discover new defects in a recently added feature
   • BA regression suite that runs after every build and has been stable for six months
   • CA usability test that requires subjective assessment of user experience
   • DA one-time data migration validation that will not be repeated
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5. 29expert · hard

   A DevOps team is integrating automated tests into a CI/CD pipeline for a microservices application. They want to run tests in parallel to reduce feedback time. However, the tests require different test data sets and the test environment is shared with other teams. What is the BEST approach to handle this?

   • AUse the same test data for all parallel runs to simplify management
   • BRun tests sequentially to avoid data conflicts
   • CProvision isolated test environments and test data for each parallel test run
   • DUse a shared test environment and hope that data conflicts do not occur
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6. 30foundation · easy

   What is the purpose of monitoring and reporting in an automation effort?

   • ATo track automation results and provide visibility into test execution and quality metrics
   • BTo reduce the number of automated tests
   • CTo replace the need for manual test execution
   • DTo automatically fix defects found by automated tests
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